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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2018-08-05 16:07:46 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2018-08-05 17:10:19 +0200
commit8e0b2b916662e09dd4d09e5271cdf214c6b80e62 (patch)
tree77e5da72764da3c8ead7c72391a369f48adfb606 /arch/x86/kvm
parentx86/speculation: Simplify sysfs report of VMX L1TF vulnerability (diff)
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x86/speculation: Use ARCH_CAPABILITIES to skip L1D flush on vmentry
Bit 3 of ARCH_CAPABILITIES tells a hypervisor that L1D flush on vmentry is not needed. Add a new value to enum vmx_l1d_flush_state, which is used either if there is no L1TF bug at all, or if bit 3 is set in ARCH_CAPABILITIES. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 8384f7cb30d8..29d6eab6920e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -218,6 +218,16 @@ static int vmx_setup_l1d_flush(enum vmx_l1d_flush_state l1tf)
return 0;
}
+ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPABILITIES)) {
+ u64 msr;
+
+ rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, msr);
+ if (msr & ARCH_CAP_SKIP_VMENTRY_L1DFLUSH) {
+ l1tf_vmx_mitigation = VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NOT_REQUIRED;
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+
/* If set to auto use the default l1tf mitigation method */
if (l1tf == VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_AUTO) {
switch (l1tf_mitigation) {